Booker T. Washington

HARTFORD —The state Board of Education on Monday approved a New Haven charter school's new management plan after the academy's original operator became ensnared in controversy.

The Booker T. Washington Academy severed ties with the Hartford-based Family Urban Schools of Excellence Inc. in late June in response to a steady drip of revelations about the group's former CEO, Michael Sharpe. The Courant reported that Sharpe claimed falsely to have a doctorate and was a convicted felon.

The break with FUSE left the organizers of the Booker T. Washington Academy scrambling to institute a new management team in time for the start of the school year. The Rev. Eldren Morrison, the...

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